The Administration: A Pro for DOT

When he signed the bill creating
the twelfth Cabinet-rank federal agency last month, Lyndon Johnson gave
no nod, verbal or cranial, to the man who had worked hardest to create
the Administration's long-sought Department of Transportation. Alan
Stephenson Boyd stood stoically aside while the President praised
others and declared gratuitously that he was looking for a "strong man"
to head DOT. Last week Johnson announced his choice: Alan Boyd, 44,
former chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board who, as Under Secretary
of Commerce for Transportation, had devoted his days since June 1965 to
the task of planning and promoting...